RFC: cleanup tools/, split into developer tools and user extras

[C. Boemann]

On Sunday 17 February 2013 18:54:00 Friedrich W. H. Kossebau wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> tools/ is turning into a dumping ground for all kind of stuff that does not
> fit into the other dirs.
> 
> At least packagers are left with guessing as e.g. the tools/README is
> outdated, so at least the OpenSUSE packaging spec I recently saw just dumps
> everything into one package calligratools. Surely not perfect.
> 
> User-oriented:
> calligra
> okularodpgenerator
> properties
> quickprint
> converter
> thumbnail
> 
> Developer-oriented:
> cstester
> fixsrc
> iconcheck
> scripts
> slidecompare
> 
> Any proposals how to reflect this splitup in the directory hierarchy?
> 
> My idea woud be to move all user-oriented stuff into a new toplevel dir
> named "extras/", as "tools" seems rather standard to contain developer
> utilities, while "extra" somehow sounds like more-useful stuff, so
> packagers should better get it, next to updated READMEs.
> 
> Now your better ideas :)
> 
I like, only maybe call it extras and devtools